This Is What The Aurorae Look Like On Mars

5/31/2015

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The aurorae, that we see here on Earth, are a quite extraordinary
sight to look at, but, just like Earth, it turns out that Mars also has aurorae
observable to the naked eye — with one quite astonishing difference. NASA, ESA,and many other scientists united together to figure out, first, if Mars had observable
aurorae, and, second, just what those might look like. To reply their
questions, they constructed a model to see if they could reproduce an aurora.
Using a planetary simulator set to mimic Martian situations, scientists did generate
another-worldly aurorae. But there was one disclosure:

That brilliant blue-purple shadow of light isn’t just an
effect of laboratory surroundings, it’s also what you would see if you were blessed
enough to be standing on the surface of Mars’ South Pole in the right situations.
But although blue is the most common color you’d be likely to see, the green
and red aurorae of our planet show up too, with clues of both of those colors
(which you can see a bit of in the lower right curve of the simulation) on the borders
of the Martain aurorae.

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